The scene in the train station bathroom. "I am not an elephant. I am not an animal! I am a human being! I! AM! A MAN!"

Don't get me started on the part where the strongman lifts him out of his cage at the freak show and they march with him to the boat that he pays for with his salary as a circus freak.

"Mr. Carr Gomm... It's that. I didn't teach him that part."

Carr Gomm's own Crowning Moment comes in the board meeting, when he serenely listens to the ranting of the Dr. Broadney who refuses to "care for circus animals". Carr Gomm just sits there, smiling slightly. "I take it you are unshakeable?" And then he invites in Princess Alexandra, who reads everyone a letter from Victoria on the subject, and Carr Gomm's smile just gets bigger.

Mothershead's Crowning Moment comes in this magnificent exchange:

Night Porter: You don't scare me! Only Mothershead can sack me now!

Mothershead: (Beating him senseless with a coin box) Done.

"Tonight's performance was very special to me. Because it was very special to someone else."

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